There’s a few reasons for that, but the major one (apart from the fact that my staple diet right now is wine and soft cheese) is my career.

You see, work places (more specifically offices) just aren’t designed to accommodate mothers.

The Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health have stated today that employers need to take more responsibility for promoting breastfeeding among their employees.

In their proposal, the RCPCH are urging the Government to bring in laws to ensure employers support breastfeeding through parental leave, feeding breaks and facilities for feeding or expressing milk.

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Feeding breaks, flexible working and facilities to express are all well and good. But I don’t think that they’re far enough.

I want to be able to bring my baby to work.

Usually when I say this, the reaction is something like outrage. ‘That would be chaos’ people tell me. ‘It would be incredibly distracting.’

I couldn’t disagree more.

When the structure of an office was developed, the typical family had one working parent and one non-working parent. It was possible to support a family on one middle income.

The non-working parent was almost exclusively the mother. Which is why work places, especially offices, were designed for men. They were founded up on the understanding that if you had children, someone else would be at home taking care of them.

No-one gave any thought to matching up school hours and office hours. At no point did anyone ask the question ‘but what about school holidays?’

We might think that we’ve moved on from a time when women had to quit their career in order to reproduce, but given that women have to take an enormous chunk of time off if they want to start a family, and systematically earn less after the do so, can we really claim to have made any progress?

Women didn’t used to work after they had children. Now they do. So the world needs to change for us.

The way that we currently approach working is sexist. Women are expected to operate in a system which doesn’t fit their needs. It hasn’t changed as the world world has changed.

Women are still forced to choose between missing chunks of their working life and being with their children. It’s nigh-on impossible to sustain breastfeeding while working full-time, unless you spend every spare hour of the day expressing milk.

Our culture of presenteeism means that flexible working and working from home are seen as shirking, rather than an equally valid way of working.

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I don’t want that.

What I want is a nursery, at work.

In every single work place (though I’d be willing to be flexible for very small businesses) there should be a provision for childcare.

There is literally no reason that we shouldn’t be able to come in to work, drop a baby off at the nursery downstairs, get on with working, feed the baby intermittently throughout the day and spend time with him or her at lunch time.

Were that the case, we would be able to have a children without having to cut a massive chunk out of our careers. We would be able to balance motherhood and work without always feeling we were missing out.

Forcing every employer in the country to make childcare provisions for their employees would, I fully admit, be radical. It’s perfectly possible to make all sorts of arguments in favour of it.

It’s true, proper childcare provisions for working parents would reduce the number of sick days people have to take because of their children being ill. It would promote women coming back to work after maternity leave. It would inspire company loyalty and function as a tempting employee benefit.

Every single employer in the UK should be making it their personal responsibility to ensure that women are able to continue their career trajectory after they have children. Anything else is sexist, outdated and irresponsible.